The Bank of Russia increased by 35 kopecks of the border of the floating currency corridor of the bivalyut basket to 38.4-47.4 rubles. This was reported on the website of the regulator. Since the beginning of October, the Central Bank has shifting the boundaries of the currency corridor for the fourteenth time, the total border of the bivalyut basket was increased by 3 rubles. When opening trading on the Moscow Exchange, the dollar grew by four kopecks to 42.4 rubles.

During the revision of the Ministry of Culture on tourism activities, he underwent significant changes. This is written by Izvestia with reference to a new version of the document, which was at the disposal of the editorial office. The new version of the document, in particular, provides for an increase in the minimum amount of liability insurance for visiting tourism operators from 30 million to 50 million rubles.

Canadian Foreign Minister John Bard and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the situation in the east of the country, reports Associated Press . During a visit to Canada, Kerry said that there are actually no disagreements between the US and Canada on the most important issues of an international agenda, including the Ukrainian crisis.

Tikhon Kraev Sociological survey photo: Mestnye.ru At the beginning of the week, VTsIOM and the Levada Center published several hundred-bands. There, about the authorities and about all kinds of differences that might seem unpleasant to citizens. But no, most of these hypothetical troubles are indifferent. Vladimir Putin First, VTsIOM and Putin's rating.

On October 21-23, the II International Conference “Radiation Technologies: Achievements and Development Prospects” was held in Yalta (Republic of Crimea). The conference was supported by the State Corporation Rosatom and CJSC “Science and Innovation”, the organizer was the OJSC “Scientific and Research Institute of Technical Physics and Automation” (OJSC “NITFA”, Moscow), the partner of the event-the UNICS company.

As it can be judged according to the data of the Russian payment balance for 9 months of 2014, the current currency and financial situation in the country develops almost completely according to the model scenario. In 2012, when there was still a restorative growth, the foreign exchange and financial situation of the country's economy was more or less stable. In particular, the payment balance was all active all the time, its balance reached a rather decent amount of $ 71 billion.

October 29 as part of the project of the Polit.ru portal and the center named after Sun. Meyerhold “The nineties: the look of a normal person” Independent political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin will give a lecture “Elections of the President of 1996. Who defeated - Zyuganov or Yeltsin? ” In his lecture, he will talk about the political events of the 1990s and try to dispel myths that have developed in the memory of the audience about this turning point for Russia.

The hopes of some Russians that the European Union will most likely not be justified in the near future in the near future. Some influential countries, including the presiding in the European Council of Italy, are supporters of the softening of sanctions, but the decision -making procedure in the EU is built in this way, Kommersant writes that Moscow will have to wait at least until March. The European Union, recall, starting on March 17, introduced nine packages of sanctions against Russia.

Ukraine is unlikely to receive a second tranche of a $2.7 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund in 2014, as previously expected. This was stated by the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Alexander Shlapak, reports Reuters . It was assumed that Kyiv would receive the money in December 2014, however, Shlapak noted, this is unlikely to happen.

Penza doctors placed a student who arrived from Africa one of the local universities in connection with suspicion of Ebola's hemorrhagic fever. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the regional industry Tatyana Manukhina. Currently, namerral employees are setting a circle of people with whom the student could have contact recently. At the moment, the student is in the Penza Center for Specialized Assistance under a special medical supervision.

The Volga-Dnepr company confirmed the fact of the landing at Ulyanovsk Airport of its aircraft An-124 Ruslan, which was following from Moscow on the Baikonur cosmodrome with a satellite on board. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the company. According to the company representative, everything is in order with the plane and the load. There will be no violations of contract obligations, they added in the press service.

During the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the European Union, there were no recommendations on changing the current sanctions regime in relation to Russia, RIA Novosti reported with reference to an anonymous diplomatic source.

The Party of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk “People’s Front”, which leads almost 80% of the ballots in an extraordinary election to the Ukrainian parliament, is ready to take on a leading role in the formation of the Coalition of Democratic Forces in the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a statement by the candidate for people's deputies from the NF Pavel Petrenko.

Moscow police officers revealed a fraudulent scheme related to the sale of iPhone 6 smartphones in one of the shops in the city center. This was reported by TASS with reference to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This scam with phones was detected at a outlet located in the Presnya area. According to law enforcement agencies, over 50 people became victims of scammers, however, the police do not exclude that during the investigation the number of victims can seriously grow.

At the Dedovskaya station in the Istrinsky district of the Moscow Region, a smoke occurred in the train. There are no victims as a result of the incident, but it led to a failure in the movement of suburban trains in the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway, Interfax reports. The report about the incident was received on the duty officer at 07:50, and already at 08:04 the smoke was eliminated by the rescuers who arrived at the place.